LIBERTY — With Liberty schools Treasurer Maureen Lloyd leaving today for a new position with Girard City Schools, the board of education has begun the process of getting a new treasurer.

The Liberty board at its meeting Monday accepted Lloyd’s resignation, effective today. She begins as Girard’s treasurer Wednesday.

Superintendent Brian Knight said the board will work with the Ohio School Boards Association in finding a new treasurer. He said the OSBA helped the district in the past.

The board appointed Stacy Foster, treasurer of the Trumbull County Educational Service Center, to serve as interim treasurer for the district during the search process. Foster begins Wednesday.

Knight said Foster will work for 10 days free as a service from the TCESC and then her pay will be determined.

The board also approved having Debra Metee serve as a professional consultant on an as-needed basis for Liberty schools. Knight said Metee has helped the district in the past and reviews school materials and finances.

Board President David Malone, who served the longest of any board member with Lloyd and was on the board when the district was in fiscal emergency, thanked her for her service to the district for the past six years.

“When Maureen started here, the district was not in the greatest financial situation. We had just come out of fiscal emergency. She worked hard to keep the district finances in the black and created a much more financially stable school system,” Malone said.

He said Lloyd worked for four superintendents during her time in Liberty schools and saw a lot of turnover in staff.

“Her dedication and hard work helped us.” Malone said.

Knight said when he was high school principal for two years, he worked with Lloyd.

“Maureen was an outstanding treasurer. She knew the treasurer’s office inside and out and we relied on her heavily,” Knight said.

Lloyd, of Poland, previously worked for the Lowellville school district in Mahoning County. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration / finance from Youngstown State University and is completing her MBA from Ashland University. She also has a state treasurer’s license.

PROTECTIVE CAPS

In other business, Knight reported that special guardian concussion caps to protect the football players’ heads at games and practices have been purchased.

Knight said the caps hook to the inside of a football helmet to prevent concussions.

“This was an easy decision for us to get them,” he said.

Knight said 55 caps were purchased at $3,600.

He said the caps are worn by players in the National Football League.

Also, the district completed several paving, striping and drainage projects for the start of the school year on Monday.

Carl’s Paving Inc. of Niles did paving and resurfacing of the parking lot covering 68,000-square feet at $105,900, replaced three parking lot drain tops and removed, repaired and inserted one drain top at $2,900, and also restriped the parking lines on the repaved parking lots at $1,900.

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